hard to grapple with this....what could have been the cause for existence? The invisible that is, can only be accessed in non-being?? So manybe conventional reality or materiality is nothing but one huge hinderance to entering into realms of "The One Being"

The root of life was in every drop of the ocean of immortality, and the ocean
was radiant light, which was fire, and heat, and motion. Darkness vanished and
was no more; it disappeared in its own essence, the body of fire and water, or
father and mother

Father-Mother spin a web whose upper end is fastened to spirit — the light of
the one darkness — and the lower one to its shadowy end, matter; and this web is
the universe spun out of the two substances made in one,

Make thy calculations, Lanoo, if thou wouldest learn the correct age of thy
small wheel. Its fourth spoke is our mother. Reach the fourth “fruit” of the
fourth path of knowledge that leads to Nirvana, and thou shalt comprehend, for
thou shalt see . . . .

The spark hangs from the flame by the finest thread of Fohat. It journeys
through the Seven Worlds of Maya. It stops in the first, and is a metal and a
stone; it passes into the second and behold — a plant; the plant whirls through
seven changes and becomes a sacred animal. From the combined attributes of
these, Manu, the thinker is formed. Who forms him? The seven lives, and the one
life. Who completes him? The five-fold Lha. And who perfects the last body?
Fish, sin, and soma